Duskfire Glacier Trouble in the Stepstones

The two strangers permit her nearness as she investigates their scents. Both smell as healthy as they look. That the she-wolf before her went by any other name she did not know, nor learn—Tikigâk says to her in quiet answer, Tikigâk. Names—a thing also like wind. First she had been Atuasiq, then something else before she was called Tikigâk. She might yet acquire another name—time would tell. 

But Tikigâk sees what is shown to her, and she sees that the woman before her is wise, not at all arrogant for the strength that she wielded. And with that, Tikigâk immediately determined she enjoyed the company of this woman—a woman who knew her strength, but also how to keep her head. 

A woman who knew how to survive.

The male eats as her mate speaks. Tikigâk observes their features for reactions, listening on in her stalwart and stony silence. She moves next to her mate once more, curious now to hear of their claim.